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Ari Friedlander replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI support the creation of a much-needed Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum.
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Catherine Fung replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWriting in support of this petition.
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Christopher Eng replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoWriting in support of this petition!
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Brian Bernards replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI wholeheartedly support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum and look forward to being involved in the organizational efforts to sustain it. –Brian Bernards, Asst. Prof. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic CFP: Global Asia: Critical Aesthetics and Alternative Globalities in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoGlobal Asia: Critical Aesthetics and Alternative Globalities
June 27-28, 2016 – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
In the inaugural issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Tina Chen and Eric Hayot posit that “ ‘Asia’ has been ‘global’ since long before the diasporas of the nineteenth century; the question is how, and why, and what ki…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum and am happy to volunteer for the executive committee. — Weihsin Gui, Assoc Prof of English, University of California-Riverside
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum and am happy to volunteer for the executive committee.
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI support the petition to create a Forum called LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic.
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse created the group
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Shazia Rahman deposited Rachna Mara’s Cosmopolitan (Yet Partial) Feminisms in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis article shows how Rachna Mara’s collection of short stories Of Customs and Excise puts forth a cosmopolitan feminism that reveals the losses and gains of diaspora in an arena of partiality and relationality.
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James Gifford deposited Vassanji’s Toronto and Durrell’s Alexandria: The View from Across or the View from Beside? in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe British and Canadian authors Lawrence Durrell and M. G. Vassanji do not, at first thought, call out for a comparative study. Neither are typically regarded in criticism through their origins or ethnicity. The focus instead goes to their characters and subject matter, their cosmopolitan experiences. Confusions surrounding both authors have…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: History, Memory, Grief @ McMaster U in the discussion
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
John Douglas Taylor Conference, April 29-30, 2016
Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton
Organizers: Chandrima Chakraborty, Nisha Eswaran, Sharifa Patel and Sarah Wahab
329 people, mostly Indo-Canadians, died in the June 23rd 1985 bombing of…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia–Special Issue in the discussion
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoSpecial Issue for Postcolonial Text
CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia
(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)
In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a forthc…[Read more]
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Kimberly O'Neill started the topic CFP: 20th-21st-Century Hemispheric Literary Studies in the discussion
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoGathering 8-10 emerging and established scholars for 5-minute Ignite talks; share your 20th-21st-c hemispheric project (methods, archives, ideas, issues). 200-word abstract and CV by 20 March 2015; Kimberly O’Neill (Kimberly.O’Neill@quinnipiac.edu).
The purpose of this panel is to offer 20th-century and contemporary hemispheric scholars the o…[Read more]
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Jade R. Ferguson started the topic CFP: New Directions in Black Canadian Literature (MLA 2016) in the discussion
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago“New Directions in Black Canadian Literature” (MLA 2016): This panel invites papers that open new lines of analysis of Black Canadian literature and sites for redefining Blackness in Canada. 250-word abstracts and brief CV by 21 March 2015 to Jade Ferguson (jfergu05@uoguelph.ca).
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Jennifer Blair started the topic Discussion Group Open Meeting at the MLA–Friday, January 9th at 3:00 in the forum
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 11 years agoWould you like to find out more about the Canadian Literature Discussion Group? Are you interested in discussing the topics and issues raised in the group’s panels at the 2015 MLA, and also what’s to come at the Austin convention in 2016? What interests you about this field of study and how would you like to see the group develop?
The exe…[Read more]
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Jennifer Blair started the topic Details for Convention Panels: Session #322 and Session #459 in the forum
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe Canadian Literature Discussion Group has two exciting panels scheduled for the upcoming MLA convention. See the program details listed below and the “Files” section of the MLA Commons for full abstracts.
Looking forward to seeing you in Vancouver!
Session #322: Coastal Canada
January 9, 2015 1:45-3:00pm in 114 VCC West
“Coastal Zones…[Read more]
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Jennifer Blair uploaded the file: MLA 2015 Canadian Literature Panels: Details and Abstracts to
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Canadian Literature Discussion Group has two panels scheduled for the upcoming convention:
“Coastal Canada” (Jan 9, 1:45-3:00, 114 VCC West) and
“Visual Cultures and Young People’s Texts in Canada” (Jan 10, 10:15-11:30, 113 VCC West).
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Jon Smith started the topic CFP: The South in the North (MLA pre-conf @SFU Jan 6-7 2015) in the forum
Canadian Literature in English on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The South in the North
A Pre-MLA Mini-conference
January 6-7, 2015
Simon Fraser University (Harbour Centre)
Vancouver, BC
Since 2001, when Houston Baker and Dana Nelson described the U.S. South as the “nation’s abjected regional Other,” a powerful body of work by historians and literary critics such as Leigh Anne D…[Read more]
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Jennifer Blair posted an update in the group
LLC Canadian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Canadian Literature Discussion Group now invites proposals for two panels planned for the MLA 2015 conference in Vancouver, including one collaborative panel organized with the Children’s Literature Division. The due date for both is March 15th.
Visual Cultures and Young People’s Texts in Canada
Exploring visual culture produced by, for…[Read more]
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